Pioneer SX-1050 speaker problems

You'll need to figure out whether you are over driving your woofers excursion limits or if you are sending your amp into clipping or a combination of both.
It would most likely be beneficial to switch to a speaker that has more bass output than your current to suite your taste.

Sounds like you’re over driving the speakers and I suspect you’ll completely destroy those (small) speakers if you had your amplifier at the clipping level. 120 wpc is way over the limits of these speakers if driven at high spl levels.

thanks for the responses. I think the speakers will have to find a new more suitable home and I will be looking for  something more robust.

schmada,

Do you have another source, other than the TT? If so, do you have the same woofer behavior using the alternate input source? If it's only with the TT, maybe you are getting mechanical feedback back into the cartridge due to poor isolation from the heavy bass.

If you are having the same issue with all sources, you have a couple of possibilities.

First, perhaps you are really over-driving the speakers. Your speaker specifications show a frequency response of 50hz - 26,500hz. They don't appear to be a speaker designed to produce a lot of bass. If you turn down the bass boost does the problem go away? Maybe you need a different speaker that is more appropriate for your musical tastes.

Next, you could be sending your amp into clipping trying to get the loud bass you desire.

Either of these 2 possibilities are not good for your speakers. You will likely damage the speakers if you keep doing this.

Another possibility is that your SX-1050 is broken and is sending a bad signal to the speakers. You could test this by inserting a different amp into the system.

schmada,

Sorry, I was typing my response and didn't realize you had already replied.

If you are going to look at different speakers, you should definitely look for speakers that were designed with high bass output as a goal. This will probably require much larger cabinets and drivers. You might also want to consider some vintage speakers that were popular at the time the SX-1050 was on the market.

That said, I'm using vintage Infinity RS 1.5 speakers in my system, but using modern electronics. The Infinity RS 1.5, RS 2.5 and some others used the fantastic Watkins woofer which has dual 4 ohm and 2 ohm voice coils. They produce very solid, and loud, bass. My medium sized RS 1.5s play down to 28hz and can do bass very loud in my medium sized room.